Does re-encoding to small size mkv lose quality?

hey guys…super noob here
I see a bunch of lets say 720p movie postings that have been re-encoding to 600mb. Normally a 720p release is like 4gb+ . This may be a really stupid question, but when they re-encode to such a small size does it lose quality with it? Logically I would think it does but I just wanted to make sure, Thanks!
Answer #1
It loses a lot of quality. Poorer colours, blurry, and so on. You simply cannot get a good quality x264 in HD at that file size.
Answer #2
It loses a lot of quality. Poorer colours, blurry, and so on. You simply cannot get a good quality x264 in HD at that file size.
thanks for clearing that up…that’s what I thought but just needed confirmation.
Answer #3
Yup.. loses lot of quality.. Experienced it ..
I had Gladiator 720p.. original size was around 4gb..
after encoding it.. YUCK…!!!!
Answer #4
Yup.. loses lot of quality.. Experienced it ..
I had Gladiator 720p.. original size was around 4gb..
after encoding it.. YUCK...!!!!
haha…I guess I’m going to take the time and bandwith to go for all or nothing! Too bad my ISP has a 250gb monthly usage cap
Answer #5
Yup.. loses lot of quality.. Experienced it ..
I had Gladiator 720p.. original size was around 4gb..
after encoding it.. YUCK...!!!!
haha...I guess I'm going to take the time and bandwith to go for all or nothing! Too bad my ISP has a 250gb monthly usage cap I used to have a 4GB cap 5 years back. Now’s it’s a massive 120GB.
Answer #6
Yup.. loses lot of quality.. Experienced it ..
I had Gladiator 720p.. original size was around 4gb..
after encoding it.. YUCK...!!!!
haha...I guess I'm going to take the time and bandwith to go for all or nothing! Too bad my ISP has a 250gb monthly usage cap I used to have a 4GB cap 5 years back. Now's it's a massive 120GB.
wow 4gb! I guess 250gb isn’t so bad then when put into perspective
Answer #7
I’m lucky enough to be with an ISP that can pushed around, lol. I got a few letters several years back telling me I was downloading too much and they were limiting my speeds because of it. I just wrote a letter back threatening to leave if they continued throttling me, and now I download about 50GB a night at full speed.
Answer #8
Some quality will be lost, how much depends on bitrate, settings and how it’s encoded. It is possible to limit the reduction in sharpness and edges which can become unclear by encoding Anamorphically to reduce the number of pixels to encode. It can work very well and I use it on my 99MB TV rips.
Larger resolutions compress better than SD content but fast motion and lots of changes will lower quality. A “Movie” with a stationary picture will encode very well into a very small space with high quality but add any movement and the file size would need to increase to maintain the quality.
There are a number of things which affect quality, bitrate is the main one, motion and scene complexity and encoding settings.
Answer #9
Yes! Depends on your setting, though with proper settings you can minimize the low quality after encoding. It all depends on bitrate you have switched on, as MM said.
Size depends on encoder, bitrate and compression mechanism.